{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-assisted-places-regulations-1997/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-assisted-places-regulations-1997/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1968",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Assisted Places) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-assisted-places-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, except where the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say—\n“the 1995 Regulations” means the Education (Assisted Places) Regulations 1995 (as amended by the Education (Assisted Places) (Amendment) Regulations 1996);\n“the 1997 Act” means the Education (Schools) Act 1997;\n“assisted place” means an assisted place provided under section 2(1) of the 1997 Act;\n“assisted pupil” means a child provided with an assisted place;\n“child” includes a step-child, a child adopted in pursuance of adoption proceedings and a person who is over compulsory school age;\n“employment” includes the holding of any office and any occupation for gain (including self-employment in any trade, profession or vocation) and “employed” shall be construed accordingly;\n“fees” means—\n(a) tuition and other fees the payment of which is a condition of attendance at a school, but does not include sums to be paid into a bursary (or similar fund) or boarding fees, and\n(b) entrance fees for public examinations paid by a school in respect of candidates from the school;\n“financial year” and “preceding financial year” have the meanings assigned by regulation 9;\n“income”, “relevant income” and “total income” have the meanings assigned by regulation 10;\n“participation agreement” in relation to a school means the participation agreement made by the Secretary of State and that school as it had effect immediately before the commencement of section 1 of the 1997 Act;\n“remission questions” has the meaning assigned by regulation 8; and\n“school” means a former participating school within the meaning of section 4(1) of the 1997 Act and references to a school include references to the proprietors thereof and persons acting with the proprietors' authority.\n(2) Except where the context otherwise requires, any reference in these Regulations to—\n(a) a numbered Part, regulation or Schedule is a reference to the Part, regulation or Schedule in these Regulations so numbered; and\n(b) a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph so numbered in the regulation or Schedule in which the reference appears.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/2016."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/2113."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1968/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:58:30.287661+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}